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Kelsey Carreiro, the City of Healdsburg’s emergency manager, previewed a new evacuation zone map to the city council at their Monday meeting, May 1.  The update consolidated the previous 41 evacuation zones to a more manageable 13, and dispenses with the letter system formerly appended...

Sunday, April 9 6:17am. Disturbance at Healdsburg District Hospital Emergency Room. Reporting Party (RP) is requesting assistance with an unstable patient. Dispatch could hear disruptive words in background. RP believes she will become combative. Officers responded; the patient was sedated. 8:40am. Disturbance at Safeway on Vine...

As part of City of Healdsburg’s “efforts to foster and enhance our creative community,” it was announced last week that the city’s first Public Art Grant Program is looking for applicants. This program is one of the outcomes of the recently adopted Arts and...

The fifth and final “encuentro” takes place at 6:30 tonight, Thursday, April 27, on the subject of “Is the Dream Alive and Well in Healdsburg?” It will provide a venue for panelists and community members to discuss the contemporary and historical experiences of the...

100 years ago – April 26, 1923 Plan to Beautify Gateway to City In connection with Clean-Up Week, which is to be held here beginning on April 30, members of the board of trustees and the Chamber of Commerce are discussing a plan to do away...

Sunday, April 2 12:25am. Burglary on East St. Reporting Party (RP) states she woke up to a female inside her house, unknown if she is still inside. RP sees 2 females walking in front of the house. “RP states people live above her house. The...

Last month, I wrote to our Healdsburg Unified School District families in an attempt to address the overwhelming concerns about safety that I know have been surfacing in response to the recent tragedy at Montgomery High School, as well as to the horrifying acts...

Shortly after the Healdsburg Tribune went to press last week, on April 13 at about 1:30am, Healdsburg Police officers attempted to conduct a traffic stop on a vehicle on Dry Creek Road near Highway 101. After the driver failed to respond, the officer activated...

Spring is here. California’s green hills are flashing their colors, notably California’s orange poppy (Eschscholzia californica), also called California sunlight or cup of gold.    California’s heavy rains this year will likely create a “super bloom.” This occurs when deserts transform long dormant seeds to create...

The drought may be over, but disaster still looms. That’s the underlying presumption of the city’s Local Hazard Mitigation Plan (LHMP) update, currently in process. Healdsburg is vulnerable to a wide range of natural disasters, including droughts, wildfires, flooding, landslides and earthquakes. A Local Hazard...